Answering a “request for comment” from a friend about this quote taken by a The Spectator’s article, (whoa! Hold on, copyright crusaders: that’s a legitimate exercise of the linking right!) Continue reading “Big Data and the path to a Soviet-like, data centric economy”
GDPR in Italy: the Spaghetti Code
Long story short: GDPR in Italy is a complete mess and a shining example of legal Spaghetti Code. Continue reading “GDPR in Italy: the Spaghetti Code”
The Consumer’s Lamentation (Ahead of Amazon…)
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (first recorded in 1946)
SOF on Trial. The Technical and Legal Value of Battlefield Digital Forensics in Court
The book Information Security Systems has been published in late 2017 by Springer as part of the ? Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series.
Together with Prof. Luigi Mancini and dr. Agostino Panico of the Information Technology Department of the Sapienza University (Rome) I wrote the chapter titled “SOF on Trial. The Technical and Legal Value of Battlefield Digital Forensics in Court“.
Here is the abstract: Continue reading “SOF on Trial. The Technical and Legal Value of Battlefield Digital Forensics in Court”
The Mistake of Giving Legal Value To Asimov Robotics’ Laws
In 1950, Isaac Asimov published Runaround, a short story where the famous Three Laws of Robotics were featured for the first time.
Today, Asimov’s Laws have become the rhetoric trick used by “artificial intelligence” and “intelligent robotics” experts.
Asimov’s Law are a brilliant literary invention but, from a legal standpoint, are flawed by a wrong assumption, i.e. the fact that robots are sentient being with autonomous will. Continue reading “The Mistake of Giving Legal Value To Asimov Robotics’ Laws”